Los Alamos National Laboratory News

A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview of things to come as states across the West contend with a dangerous recipe of wind, low humidity and tinder-dry fuels.

Albuquerque, NM, United States - The enormous wildfire ravaging New Mexico has become the largest fire in the state's history.

For the second year in a row, New Mexico is battling a huge, record-setting forest fire.

A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday.

Members of a U.S. Senate committee want to restore funding for a multi-billion dollar new plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos after the funding request was rejected by the U.S. House of Representatives last month.

The mounting budget deficit had Chicken Littles on both sides of the aisle crying doom and gloom.

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are now able to determine how much plutonium was originally in a particular location.

The National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts has selected Los Alamos National Laboratory's Ultrasonic Algae Harvesting technology for Phase II development.

After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches to the long-term storage of nuclear waste as well as the ... (more)

The candidates for the Democratic nomination in NM House Dist. 46-Carl Trujillo and Santa Fe Mayor David Coss-are enthusiastic, but flawed.

There are few things that have real bipartisan consensus in Congress nowadays. So, when both parties agree to cancel a billion dollar boondoggle, it is clear that there was something very wrong with the project.

Western Area Power Administration received requests from three Federal agencies who would like to participate in Western's 2012 consolidated renewable energy certificate purchase.

The Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement for re-election of Rep.